A BURSARY scheme has been set up for volunteers in memory of a former Charterhouse student who died in 2009.

Myles Robinson went missing while on a family Christmas holiday in the Swiss Alps.

His body was found on December 28 at the foot of a steep icy slope near the ski resort of Wengen, six days after he disappeared.

The 23-year-old had been due to start work at a financial services company, Partners Capital, in early 2010, and had spent a gap year in Ghana coaching children’s football after leaving Charterhouse in 2005.

To continue the work he started, Myles’ family, together with Partners Capital, have set up the Myles Robinson Memorial Trust, which supports charities that send out young British people to help develop educational facilities in the poorest developing countries.

The trust is aligned with one of the United Nations’ eight Millennium Development Goals, universal education, which is working to ensure that children across the world have access to a full primary education by 2015.

His family said they thought that the trust was a fitting way to build on the work that Myles did in Ghana, a year which they said “gave him a huge amount of satisfaction”.

One of the first charities to benefit from the Myles Robinson Trust is Lattitude Global Volunteering, a youth development charity, which provides similar placements to the one that Myles took part in around the world, including Ghana.

The organisation has already given out four bursaries to candidates this year, who have travelled abroad to teach and encourage participation in sport, just as Myles did in 2006.

Lattitude’s bursary co-ordinator, Jo Neville, said: “We’re delighted and very honoured to be able to offer the Myles Robinson Memorial Trust bursaries to our eligible volunteers.

“Not only does this help underprivileged young people achieve their dreams of volunteering abroad, but it helps us to keep Myles’ memory alive in Ghana and around the world.”